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A Massive Spike In The Sell-Buy Ratio – Insider Weekends

  • January 7, 2024

Insider buying fell off a cliff during the holiday shortened week last week. There are multiple reasons for this including folks taking time off from work and the start of quiet periods at most companies following the end of Q4. The small crop of purchases that managed to find their way into our list of top 5 insider purchases, with the exception of Casey`s General Stores (CASY), did not pique my interest. Instead of focusing on an individual company, I figured I would use this article to explore any overall signals insiders in aggregate are providing us.

We have been collecting weekly aggregate insider buying and selling data and calculating the Sell/Buy ratio for twelve years. During that time, there have been a few times when we have noticed some strong signals from aggregate insider buying including in March 2020 when insiders for the first time in a decade purchased more stock than they sold for two weeks in a row. We wrote the following about that event in this March 2020 article and this article a week later:

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